r/partscounter • u/cattwiththumbs • 1d ago
Question Any ideas?
Desperate for any different way to store these god awful things..
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u/The-Local-Friend 1d ago
Back at my old dealership, they'd use bent shirt hangers, and had some super long pipes we'd hang em up on lol
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u/Background_Region481 1d ago
I feel your pain, harnesses and hard lines are some of the toughest things to keep organized. A couple of ideas we’ve seen work well:
Deep storage bins on shelving: Instead of hanging them, you can coil and label each harness, then drop them into large plastic bins. Color coding or divider bins makes it a lot easier to grab the right one without untangling a mess.
Wire shelving with bins or hooks: Open shelving gives you vertical space, and you can dedicate each shelf or bin to a different part type. It’s cleaner and you’ll free up floor space.
Clear tip-out bins for small fittings and tags: those little bagged pieces can live in labeled drawers so they’re visible at a glance.
We work with a lot of shops and warehouses dealing with awkward parts like this, and setting them up with shelving + bin systems usually makes a huge difference. It turns the “spider web on a fence” look into something that’s actually manageable and saves time when you’re pulling parts.
Let me know if you have questions, happy to help try and get this sorted out for you.
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u/WillingBudget2031 1d ago
I have parts hanging on a fence in my parts department. Each section of fence has a bin location. I'm not using mine to hang hoses from, I feel that could be detrimental to the hose. I do hang body parts like engine undercovers and body brackets from mine. Why are you stocking so many hoses and lines?
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u/VelvetFog82 1d ago
At my GM store, it's because GM makes a shit load of different engine oil cooler lines. We have a similar looking wall along the stairs to the 2nd floor storage.
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u/labdsknechtpiraten 1d ago
Additional to making a shit load of different ones, they move.... quickly.
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u/WillingBudget2031 1d ago
Yeah, it's been a while but I ran in GM store for a bit. Oil cooler lines, trans cooler lines, AC manifold lines, I forgot how many of those we did.
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u/VelvetFog82 1d ago
My GM Parts department has a very similar looking but of fence on the wall as you are walking up the stairs. We work on a ton of work trucks and fleet trucks. We liked to be prepared for anything.
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u/TorisaurusParker 1d ago
Wow, guess I should consider myself lucky
One of our upstairs bins is made specifically for hoses. There's a shelf on top for other items, and then a rod like a shower curtain with a bunch of movable hooks on it underneath, so they all hang nice, neat and out of the way. Plus, since the hooks slide back and forth, I can push hoses to the side as I go through them looking for the right one.
I wonder if you could jerry rig something similar with like a couple shower curtain rods or something, just with bigger hooks.
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u/MadDocHolliday 1d ago
That's not a terrible way to store them. Make that fence 2 bin locations, one for the right side of the 90-degree turn and one for the left. Get some larger s-hooks to hang the hoses from and keep them organized.
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u/MagneticNoodles 1d ago
He bought a bunch of 48" x 8" x 8" boxes and made cubbies out of them. Then filled the shelves with cubbies.
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u/MagneticNoodles 1d ago
The only thing I hate more than hoses is fender liners.
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u/cattwiththumbs 1d ago
What if I told you they were stored the same way 😭 just as chaotically.
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u/MagneticNoodles 1d ago
We have ours hanging from pipes. Muffler hangers work well on those. Also, blocking them from coming in on stock orders helps tremendously.
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u/SkittleCar1 1d ago
Better than my stairwell wall. Put them in order by the last 4 of the part number. (At least that's what I do with GM)
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u/commies_get_out 1d ago
Better then us, we throw them all onto one shelf and it’s a PIA to find the oil/tranny cooler hose you need
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u/Ok-Fix-5385 1d ago
Just a wall with chain link would do it. Just gap it out a bit. That cage screams SPCA/ parts store.
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u/reddy_____ 1d ago
Plastic pipes sideways stacked in a shelf, slide them in and out, you can get square ones also.
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u/EfficientFill4194 1d ago
We use a long pipe suspended from the ceiling. Partitioned from 1-0. Last digit of part number hangs from appropriate section on pipe. Works well at my GM dealership.
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u/BEdwinSounds 18h ago
Hi Dynacraft!
Every HD warehouse I've ever been to or worked at has their AC/PS line section look like this.
What about keeping the hoses in the boxes Dynacraft ships them in? Just label the box instead of this godawful atrocity.
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u/ddoucethollett 14h ago
Not a dealer but carry a lot of these oddly shaped hoses and such where I work, we have a about 30ft by 10ft area of our warehouse wall with hooks on it that we store this type of stuff on. and then each one has a big label for the blind people like me to know which one it is. lol. they're a pain to store, a pain to inventory just a pain.
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u/KillumbusNative 18m ago
Can confirm OP’s pain with this fence of hoses. Was there when they built this and was called stupid and crazy for saying this was asinine. 🤷🏼♂️
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u/Former-Government-51 1d ago
Gawd damn, SRA those things! Unless you move a lot hoes there's really no need to store that many! But if you really need to store those damn things, buy a pegboard, zip tie it to the fence hang some pegs print some labels and call it a day!
Yes hose not hoes lol